Transcendentalists
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Topic: Transcendentalists
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Subject: Transcendentalists
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 16:17
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I've been reading a lot recently. Was wondering who other people enjoy and the general opinion of the movement.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 16:21
Transcendentalism was the hippie movement of the 19th century.  I don't particularly like any of them (bizarre metaphors, officious advice, nebulous spirituality). I'll take moderate Romanticism and leave the extremists alone.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 16:38
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None of them. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 16:45
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I didn't read any of them - and anyone I'd choose would be only the fourth poet I ever (attempted to) read. But - would I like Whitman? ------------- 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 17:02
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Thoreau is pretty much a boss, though I haven't really read any of the others. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 20:56
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Awww man nobody likes my poll :( I thought they were more popular guys. Maybe the geography has something to do with the discrepancy. Thoreau is my boy. His essay Civil Disobedience is pretty much the greatest thing ever written. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 21:07
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I would like Thoreau more if he wasn't dry as toast. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: December 19 2011 at 00:04
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I like the Transcendental pessimists more than the Transcendental optimists. Poe, Melville, Hawthorne. I've been meaning to get some Whitman though. ------------- 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 19 2011 at 19:48
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Hawthorne and Poe were critics of the movement. Especially Poe, I've never seen him described as a part of it.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 19 2011 at 19:50
Indeed. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Equality 7-2521 wrote:Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: December 19 2011 at 19:55
Indubitably. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: December 20 2011 at 13:29
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 20 2011 at 18:29
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I've read paragraphs from Emerson as quoted by others and I found them wonderful, but I never got to properly read any of his works. I'm still interested, and same with Whitman. I haven't heard of this movement before, though. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 20 2011 at 20:36
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I thought this was a thread about The Transcendental One from Planescape: Torment. Oh well. -------------   
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 21 2011 at 15:02
It was confined to the Northeastern region of the US as far as I know. You should read one of my favorite poems. It's by Whitman, The Noiseless, Patient Spider ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 21 2011 at 15:17
Butter your Thoreau, baby. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |